The Arab Spring derailed...

Last week's defection of the Syrian prime minister was a public
relations blow to the regime of Bashar Al Assad, but had no other
significance.

In Syria, power is in the hand of a security apparatus controlled by the Assad clan.

Despite months of street protests and archetypal autocratic systems,
the regime proved to be incapable of reforming. It is against the law of
physics for a totalitarian system to transform itself into a democracy.

What started as a genuine extension of the Arab Spring had been
derailed from civil uprising to full-blown military conflict. The
ruthless killings from both sides are polarising Syrians across
ethnic-religious lines, pushing the country further into the abyss of
destruction.

Militarising civil protests also resulted in a shift of power from
the streets of Syrian towns and cities to foreign capitals. Obviously,
unlike home-grown local leaders, outside leadership is more disposed to
the influence of external forces and foreign interest.

As a result, Syria became an open range for rival foreign powers
challenging or supporting the regime, each vying for its interest with
little concern for people's aspiration and freedom.

Assad, supported by Russia, China and Iran, is living a delusional
state of popularity, while the outside leadership is competing to trade
Western support for Syria's future political position in the Middle East
- both failing to realise that foreign backing cannot supplant national
legitimacy.

Through the US, Israel is pursuing a two-pronged strategy: change
regime to weaken Iran and the Lebanese resistance and destroy Syria by
dismantling it along ethnic and religious divide.

Tel Aviv's obsession with maintaining domineering and unchallenged
regional power has long envisaged that breaking up neighbouring states
across religious lines is indispensable to its survival as a theocratic
state.

The invasion of Iraq was ZionCons' first successful Israeli proxy war
using US forces to invade and occupy a country based on proven
fabricated tales.

In 1982, almost 20 years prior to the invasion of Iraq, former
Israeli foreign ministry official Oded Yinon wrote in Kivunim
(Directions), the Journal of the Department of Information of the World
Zionist Organisation, that Israel's future priority should be "the
dissolution of Syria and Iraq into ethnically or religiously unique
areas".

On Iraq, he wrote: "Its dissolution is even more important than
Syria. Iraq is stronger. Every kind of inter-Arab confrontation will
assist us in the short run and will shorten the way to breaking up Iraq
into provinces along ethnic and religious lines."

On Syria, the strategist called for dividing it into "an Alawi state
along its coast, a Sunni state in the Aleppo area, another Sunni state
in Damascus and the Durzes in the Hauran and in northern Jordan".

President Barack Obama's recently revealed approval of intelligence
"finding" authorising CIA role in the Syrian conflict may signify a new
liberal Israeli proxy war in Syria. Israel's dominion obsession is a
menace, endangering regional stability and global peace.

The unwinnable "inter-Arab confrontation" is fragmenting Syria and
providing a pretext for the regime to ruthlessly crush the opposition.

Widespread civil disobedience exposing the brutal regime and shifting
the centre of power back to the home-based opposition is Syria's last
hope for genuine egalitarian system. Violence will only replace a thug
with another minion dictator; it will not lead to fruitful democracy.